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]]> By: Bill http://www.savvyadmin.com/rename-files-in-bulk-from-the-command-line/#comment-152 Bill Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:07:47 +0000 http://www.savvyadmin.com/?p=59#comment-152 Ah. I see. I manually renamed the first 300 files and then got sick of it and found your blog. i think i get the general idea, though i'm trying to figure out the syntax of all the elements. Thank you very much. This will be very helpful in the future. Ah. I see. I manually renamed the first 300 files and then got sick of it and found your blog. i think i get the general idea, though i’m trying to figure out the syntax of all the elements. Thank you very much. This will be very helpful in the future.

]]> By: gmendoza http://www.savvyadmin.com/rename-files-in-bulk-from-the-command-line/#comment-151 gmendoza Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:37:38 +0000 http://www.savvyadmin.com/?p=59#comment-151 Ack! wait up. You have a space in front of your search and replace... which is why nothing is happening. But you also risk deleting the wrong part of your file names. ’s/ Discogs.url//’ will end up deleting anything that matches " Discogs.url". That will leave you with a file name of just ".url". hehe. You probably want the following: <pre>cd /media/sdb1/Music/mp3/electronic find . -type f -name Discogs.url.url -exec rename ’s/Discogs.url/Discogs/’ ‘{}’ \;</pre> This will change the "Discogs.url" to simply "Discogs", making the new full file name "Discogs.url" Ack! wait up. You have a space in front of your search and replace… which is why nothing is happening. But you also risk deleting the wrong part of your file names.

’s/ Discogs.url//’ will end up deleting anything that matches ” Discogs.url”. That will leave you with a file name of just “.url”. hehe.

You probably want the following:

cd /media/sdb1/Music/mp3/electronic
find . -type f -name Discogs.url.url -exec rename ’s/Discogs.url/Discogs/’ ‘{}’ \;

This will change the “Discogs.url” to simply “Discogs”, making the new full file name “Discogs.url”

]]> By: Bill http://www.savvyadmin.com/rename-files-in-bulk-from-the-command-line/#comment-149 Bill Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:42:34 +0000 http://www.savvyadmin.com/?p=59#comment-149 Hm okay... i noticed a few problems above. However, this is my new command and it doesn't do anything find /media/sdb1/Music/mp3/electronic* -type f -name Discogs.url.url -exec rename 's/ Discogs.url//' '{}' \; see, i want to take all the Discogs.url.url files in the directory electronic and rename them to Discogs.url Thanks. Hm okay… i noticed a few problems above. However, this is my new command and it doesn’t do anything

find /media/sdb1/Music/mp3/electronic* -type f -name Discogs.url.url -exec rename ’s/ Discogs.url//’ ‘{}’ \;

see, i want to take all the Discogs.url.url files in the directory electronic and rename them to Discogs.url

Thanks.

]]> By: Bill http://www.savvyadmin.com/rename-files-in-bulk-from-the-command-line/#comment-148 Bill Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:10:47 +0000 http://www.savvyadmin.com/?p=59#comment-148 I'm trying to do this, I have "Discogs.url.url" files in about 600 different directories and I want to drop the last ".url". Here's the syntax I used and the message I get /media/sdb1/Music/mp3/electronic$ find . -type f -name Discogs.url.url -exec rename 's/ Discogs.url//' '{}' ; find: missing argument to `-exec' Can you perhaps tell me what I did wrong? I’m trying to do this, I have “Discogs.url.url” files in about 600 different directories and I want to drop the last “.url”. Here’s the syntax I used and the message I get

/media/sdb1/Music/mp3/electronic$

find . -type f -name Discogs.url.url -exec rename ’s/ Discogs.url//’ ‘{}’ ;

find: missing argument to `-exec’

Can you perhaps tell me what I did wrong?

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